Codestral Base on LiveCodeBench: score, rank and what it means
Codestral Base scores 65.7 on LiveCodeBench, placing it #279 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 61.0 and the leader is Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning at 85.1.
Score distribution
The chart shows the top 10 models on LiveCodeBench, with Codestral Base highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.
Top 10 leaderboard
| # | Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning | Anthropic | 400000 | $19.48 | 87.7 |
| 2 | Grok 4 Reasoning | xAI | 2000000 | $19.67 | 87.8 |
| 3 | Claude Opus 4.5 | Anthropic | 400000 | $19.42 | 87.7 |
| 4 | GPT-5.2 Max | OpenAI | 1000000 | $21.39 | 89.2 |
| 5 | Grok 4 Turbo | xAI | 1000000 | $19.21 | 86.7 |
| 6 | GPT-5.1 Turbo | OpenAI | 2000000 | $19.19 | 86.1 |
| 7 | GPT-5.2 Pro | OpenAI | 2000000 | $21.32 | 89.6 |
| 8 | GPT-5.2 Reasoning | OpenAI | 1000000 | $20.98 | 87.5 |
| 9 | Claude Opus 4.5 Pro | Anthropic | 200000 | $20.98 | 89.1 |
| 10 | Gemini 3 Pro Max | Google DeepMind | 2000000 | $20.57 | 87.9 |
What this score means
On LiveCodeBench, Codestral Base sits at #279 of 600. The leader, Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning, scores 85.1, so the gap to the top is 19.4 points. The median model in this index scores 64.7, which puts Codestral Base above the midpoint.
Mistral AI models average 58.1 on this benchmark. Codestral Base is 7.6 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average Mistral AI model.
Among open-weight models, the average is 59.1. Codestral Base is 6.6 points above that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.
Read a 65.7 as a relative signal, not an absolute guarantee. Benchmark scores depend on prompt format, evaluation harness and contamination controls. Use this page to narrow the shortlist, then test the model on your own data.
Price context
At $3.31 per million input tokens, Codestral Base is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on LiveCodeBench. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.
| Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Llama 3 Replicate Instruct | Replicate | 128000 | $3.71 | 75.1 |
| Nemotron 4 Chat | NVIDIA | 65536 | $3.99 | 75.0 |
| Yi-Large Instruct | 01.AI | 32768 | $3.48 | 73.4 |
| o4 Nano | OpenAI | 65536 | $8.61 | 72.0 |
| Codestral Base | Mistral AI | 8192 | $3.31 | 73.1 |
| Llama 3 Lambda Base | Lambda | 8192 | $3.19 | 72.9 |
| Nova Lite Reasoning | Amazon | 32768 | $9.92 | 74.3 |
Other benchmarks for Codestral Base
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Percentile | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 74.1 | 348 | 42th | |
| GPQA Diamond | 70.4 | 252 | 58th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 62.6 | 264 | 56th | |
| HumanEval | 79.7 | 240 | 60th | |
| MATH-500 | 77.4 | 267 | 56th | |
| AIME 2025 | 68.7 | 283 | 53th | |
| IFEval | 79.2 | 347 | 42th | |
| TruthfulQA | 74.3 | 347 | 42th | |
| HellaSwag | 83.3 | 311 | 48th | |
| MMMU | 68.3 | 339 | 44th | |
| Arena Elo | 1371.7 | 310 | 48th |
FAQ
What score does Codestral Base get on LiveCodeBench?
Codestral Base scores 65.7 on LiveCodeBench in this index. The benchmark average is 61.0 and the top score is 85.1.
How does Codestral Base rank on LiveCodeBench?
It ranks #279 of 600 models, in the 54th percentile. The leader is Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning at 85.1.
Is Codestral Base good at LiveCodeBench?
Yes, relative to the index: it is above the median and inside the top half of scores. The result should be read alongside its price and context window.
How is the LiveCodeBench score calculated?
LiveCodeBench is a coding benchmark. Scores in this index are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale (or Elo for Arena), derived from capability tier and benchmark difficulty. They are not official leaderboard results.
What does Codestral Base cost?
Codestral Base costs $3.31 per million input tokens and $16.95 per million output tokens.